A Call To End Amigo Stores

Amigo Stores

Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

Used guitars hang in the window of a pawnshop in downtown Baldwin Park. City leaders this year enacted a moratorium on new payday loan and check-cashing stores. A project of mixed-income housing, theaters and mainstream restaurants such as Claim Jumper, Applebees and Chilis is in the works.

Used guitars hang in the window of a pawnshop in downtown Baldwin Park. City leaders this year enacted a moratorium on new payday loan and check-cashing stores. A project of mixed-income housing, theaters and mainstream restaurants such as Claim Jumper, Applebees and Chilis is in the works. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)